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COLVET Conference Panel, 35th Irish Conference of Historians, Presenting: Prof Dónal Hassett and Dr Nicola Camilleri, Chaired by Dr Anindita Bhattacharya

COLVET Conference Panel, 35th Irish Conference of Historians, Presenting: Prof Dónal Hassett and Dr Nicola Camilleri, Chaired by Dr Anindita Bhattacharya

by Donal Hassett | Sep 19, 2025 | Presentations

For the 35th Irish Conference of Historians, the COLVET team organised a panel entitled ‘Life in the Shadow of Conflict: Survival and Self-Realisation in the Africa after the Great War’. Prof Hassett presented on ‘Grief and the Global Greater War:...
Project Presentation, ‘Imperial Loyalty, Legibility and Legal Rights: The Function of the Veteran’s Card in Interwar French West Africa’, HIDDEN Cost Action Conference, Maynooth University, 15 May 2025.

Project Presentation, ‘Imperial Loyalty, Legibility and Legal Rights: The Function of the Veteran’s Card in Interwar French West Africa’, HIDDEN Cost Action Conference, Maynooth University, 15 May 2025.

by Donal Hassett | Jun 18, 2025 | Presentations

Project Presentation: ‘Writing the History of Colonial Veterancy: Sources on Eritrean Askari’, Dr Nicola Camilleri, Research and Documentation Centre, Asmara, Eritrea, May 06 2024

Project Presentation: ‘Writing the History of Colonial Veterancy: Sources on Eritrean Askari’, Dr Nicola Camilleri, Research and Documentation Centre, Asmara, Eritrea, May 06 2024

by Donal Hassett | May 14, 2025 | Events, Presentations

Conference Presentation: ‘Towards a History of the Systems of Care for War-Wounded Veterans in France’s African Colonies’, Prof Dónal Hassett, Military Welfare History Network Symposium, University of Birmingham, April 11 2025.

Conference Presentation: ‘Towards a History of the Systems of Care for War-Wounded Veterans in France’s African Colonies’, Prof Dónal Hassett, Military Welfare History Network Symposium, University of Birmingham, April 11 2025.

by Donal Hassett | May 14, 2025 | Events, Presentations

Conference Presentation, ‘Comparing Colonial Cultures of Care and Control: Veteran Provision in Interwar Algeria and Punjab’, Society of the History of War, Nicosia, 19/11/2024

Conference Presentation, ‘Comparing Colonial Cultures of Care and Control: Veteran Provision in Interwar Algeria and Punjab’, Society of the History of War, Nicosia, 19/11/2024

by Donal Hassett | Feb 11, 2025 | News, Presentations

Project Presentation: Prof Dónal Hassett at the Military Welfare History Conference in Leeds

Project Presentation: Prof Dónal Hassett at the Military Welfare History Conference in Leeds

by Donal Hassett | Aug 26, 2024 | Presentations

Prof Hassett presented a paper on ‘Rethinking the French Model of Military Welfare from the Colonies’. He discussed how the conditionality of rights and the devolution of services to paternalist and authoritarian philanthropic organisations in the French...
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Recent Posts

  • ‘Exhibiting Imperial Loyalty: Veterans at the Colonial Exhibition of 1931’
  • Dr Nicola Camilleri, ‘Guns and Gun Licences for Colonial Soldiers and Veterans. Italian East Africa in Comparative Perspective’, New Perspectives on the History of Firearms, University of Padova, 18-19/12/2025
  • Prof Dónal Hassett, ‘Beyond the Tirailleur: Narrating and Mobilizing Colonial Experiences of the First World War in the French Empire’, Journal of the Western Society for French History, Vol. 51, 2025.
  • Prof Dónal Hassett, ‘‘The Muslim, in general, was not too troubled by the emotions of the war’: The Influence of the First World War on the Rise of Colonial Psychiatry’, Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 05/12/2025
  • Project Team Presentations and PI Keynote, ‘Between Choice and Command Workshop, Erfurt, 01/12-02/12/2025

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